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Animals join the chorus with Milan’s Rosso Polare on the enigmatically uplifting “albanella” from their forthcoming album, Bocca D’Ombra. Birds chirp, and dogs howl while the duo, Anna Vezzos and Cesare Lopopolo, craft sonic shadows through a series of whispers and breaths. Organ melodies drift in the open spaces as if pulled from another time to […]
“Divine Physics” has been living in my head since I heard it a couple of weeks ago. Proteins of Magic – the moniker of Kelly Sherrod – creates a sonic minefield that surrounds and imbues her ecstasy-filled vocal performance. “Devil clipped your ticket too,” she spits over a torrid beat and emotional chord progression. “Tore […]
The fun house comes alive on Jeugdbrand’s “Do you want to move in with all of us?” Dennis Tyfus and Jeroen Stevens concoct scrambled sonic riddles with various percussive instruments (Stevens) and voice (Tyfus). Angular tone patterns scatter behind Tyfus’s breath as though the duo is hunting and haunting each other, daring each to make […]
The quiet becomes an impermeable force on Julia Dyck and Stefan Christoff’s “SILVER MOON X.” Minimal synth patterns search the fractured fog for a place to pause, to simply take in the surroundings. Dyck performs a reading over the sounds, heightening the emotive atmospheres, echoing the fragmented footage by Guillaume Vallée. This feels like an […]
Glasgow producer Michael Hamilton holds the world at arm’s length in the opening progressions of “Again and Again.” Eventually, the walls give way, and cinematic melodies bleed into the deepest recesses of our thoughts. Rising sonic tides ride waves of textured bliss beyond midnight corridors and into future domains. Hamilton builds on each layer with […]
There’s a stoic determination in the purposeful acoustic guitar strums that hold the fractured sonic architecture of Mayssa Jallad’s “Markaz Azraq (December 6)” together. “I do not think I have ever felt such violence,” Jallad sings, her voice steeled with an imperious heartache and resolve. Her words carry the weight of a thousand suns. Still, […]
A creeping melody is like a shadow following our every move on Eric Angelo Bessel’s “Secret Lake.” Extended swells greet us at the gates, holding out holographic hands that pull us into this enigmatic, animated soundworld. If we whisper quietly, sharp vibrations begin to open up secret pathways toward a spectral glow. Bessel’s phrasings gradually […]
Belgian musician and visual artist, Youniss peels back the layers to reveal a visceral, vulnerable core on his forthcoming album, White Space. The album explores how he’s dealt with personal panic attacks that he’s had since the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, an emotional confrontation that adds sharp edges to his sound. Hollow organ arrangements […]
There’s a haunted dissonance hiding in the hollows of Less Bells’ wondrous “Scheele’s Green,” an ancient energy infusing the pensive arrangements. Julie Carpenter and Dain Luscombe pull from various influences, from Europen folk to classical and experimental electronica, fusing it all together in a memorable aural narrative. Liminal echoes bridge the sonic divide between the […]